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Drug Facts

  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.

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